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In "rectangular" form the vector's length and direction are denoted in terms of its horizontal and vertical span, the first number representing the the horizontal ("real") and the second number (with the "j" prefix) representing the vertical ("imaginary") dimensions.
The horizontal component is referred to as the real component, since that dimension is compatible with normal, scalar ("real") numbers. The vertical component is referred to as the imaginary component, since that dimension lies in a different direction, totally alien to the scale of the real numbers. (Figure below )
Vector compass showing real and imaginary axes
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Vector compass with real and imaginary ("j") number lines.
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Magnitude vector in terms of real (4) and imaginary (j3) components.
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Read more about the Gordon in South Africa program here.
Wednesday, May 24: Nyanga, Cape Town
"My chisels, all broken. I wake up and think I am going to go crazy. You have an idea but no tools or materials to make it."
I will never forget the day I spent with three black sculptors in the Township of Nyanga in Cape Town. They were two wise men and a shepherd--named Isaac, Amos, and yes, Shephard. These men took the entire day to take me around the township--thousands of shacks and makeshift constructions that people called home, alleyways and muddy sand, remnants of fires and the smell of refuse. And in the midst of this, they carved sculptures and made paintings of great import: portraits of Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu carved from stinkwood (the remainders of old railroad ties); dolls carved and stained a deep ebony so children "can play with dolls which look like themselves"; elephants, furniture, paintings that record a new history for South Africa while not forgetting its horrific apartheid past. Amos told me, "Forgetting the past is like a tree without roots, or leaves without a tree." A new history must be created in light of what has already occurred.
Their studios? Cinder blocks without a roof and still under construction; a shack made from old fencing posts; or a pocket in one's jacket with a chisel to carve while in transit by Kombi (van taxis/buses). Their tools? A few chip-carving chisels, an old flat chisel-no mallets or sharpening stones from what I saw. And with all of this, still hope: "Sculpture can be made from anything. The burnt coal over there--that too can become a sculpture," Amos said, pointing to a burnt cinder heap along one of the meandering roads. "I have a hope for an arts and crafts shop," said Isaac, the elder statesman of the three and Amos' artistic "father" and mentor. "I hope too for an art school where these young people who have no jobs--who just sit around without anything to do, who have no hope--can come to be trained and learn what they do not know they can do."
I asked, "How often do the young people come to your studio?" The response: "Every day, looking for something to do. And I teach them without pay, but how long can I keep on doing this?"
Change is not happening fast enough in Nyanga. "For two weeks I have not been able to work," said Shephard. "My chisels, all broken. I wake up and think I am going to go crazy. You have an idea but no tools or materials to make it." With the frustration, however, there is also great faith in a God who is our Creator, and created us to be cocreators with him. "This ability and desire to make sculpture comes from God," said Amos. It is--as I also experience as a sculptor--an inner need, a compulsion, a tug to the materials that God has given as a resource.
How can we, called as God's servants, help to provide those resources to sculptors in Nyanga? How can we too learn from their desire to see black, white and colored artists working and cooperating together in making works of art for a new South Africa? Reflections I often had along with my fellow colleagues and students: Once these three weeks are concluded, how will we respond to the needs of what we've seen? What can we take to our country of what the South Africans are learning about truth, forgiveness, and reconciliation? Two big questions among many. These seeds have been planted now in each of us.
Jim Zingarelli, M.F.A., is a professor of art and the newly-appointed chair of the Art Department at Gordon. This past summer he was part of a faculty-student team that spent seven weeks in South Africa.
Windows into Jim Zingarelli's memorable day in Cape Town with Isaac, Amos and Shephard, three sculptors. Pictured is some of their work--carved heads attached to stuffed bodies. These men produce beautiful work with limited resources--roofless cinder block studios and a few chip-carving chisels. They hope for an arts and crafts studio some day, and an art school for the young people in the township.


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I've intended to write about Nadine Gordimer's very short story "Loot" for years, ever since I first read it in The New Yorker, and for some reason I actually thought I had written a post here about it. I recommended the story to a friend a few days ago and intended to include a link to my post about the story when, after a bit of searching, I realized I'd never written the post. Now I will fix that mistake.
From the first sentence, "Loot" is a story about time and history, about legends and imagination. "Once upon our time," it tells us, there was a Great Event -- the greatest earthquake every recorded, the greatest of all measured "apocalyptic warnings". Not only is it a Great Event (indeed, the Greatest of such events), but it is ours: we possess it.
The second paragraph details the effects of this greatest event of ours. Most giant earthquakes at sea produce floods and tsunamis, but not ours -- our special earthquake does exactly the opposite, causing the sea to pull back and reveal all it had hidden beneath it in the "most secret level of our world". (From our world the sea steals things, hides them.) The list of revealed items is egalitarian both in type and era: ballroom candalabra and toilet bowls, barnacled swords and Kalashnikovs, automatic dishwashers and baptismal fonts, wrecked ships and aircraft and tourist buses.
The narrator tells us that "it is given that time does not, never did, exist down here where the materiality of the past and present as they lie has no chronological order, all is one, all is nothing -- or all is possessible at once." Time and class don't matter at the bottom of the ocean, where all these items are equally useless -- all can be possessed because none have value or cost -- but the revelation of them to human eyes inspires assessment and desire. Value is born, apparently with no cost.
And so people "rushed to take; take, take." Look at the punctuation there: semi-colon, comma comma. The first take is the initial desire to own, the curiosity of wondering what an item might be worth, but with the initial possession comes pure desire, the need to quickly grab as much as possible just for the sake of possessing, the madness of brute avarice. People's justifications follow, but anything can be justified.
The nonhuman world doesn't understand ("gasping sea-plants gaped at them") and the people do not notice that all that is here are inanimate objects. The water took the fish back, leaving only the things. These people, deformed by desire, are no longer natural. Their allegiance is not to the living or the dead, but to that which never lived.
Possession and desire give them comfort -- these are people whose houses and livelihoods have been destroyed by the earthquake, people who have been made helpless by nature, but they can forget that in the bounty and the mad, blind, unappeasable ache of their yearning.
Obsessive greed blinds them, and the sea returns and swallows them up into its indifferent equality, making the people the equal of the things they so coveted.
But this is just the first section of the story. It is, the narrator tells us, "what is known" from what was reported by witnesses and journalists. It is what was turned into a story, legend even. The second part changes the focus from the objective to the personal, from wide-angle to zoom.
The narrator gives us this transition as a particular sort of knowledge: "But the writer knows something no-one else knows; the sea-change of the imagination."
We move from fantastic facts to fantastic fantasy, two sorts of knowledge, one a general sort and one the sort known only by a particular type of person: the writer.
Interestingly, the next paragraph, admittedly written, begins like a tale told: "Now listen..." The writer takes on a persona and pretends to be wielding words made of air, not print; words that appeal to ears, not eyes. The writer pretends to be telling an old tale, to be using the mode of the oral storytellers, but it is a tale for our time. We are given a character, a man who has desired a specific object his entire life, but he does not know what the object is. This differentiates him from the people who went to the sea-bed in search not of something but of anything. He wants something, but in its mystery it could be anything.
He has things in his house, some of which he appreciates and some of which he doesn't. Most notably, there is the print of Hokusai's "Great Wave" behind his bed, which "if it had been on the wall facing him it might have been more than part of the furnishings". His bed is not the sea-bed, the wave is but a representation of a wave.
He is a man full of time: retired, living in an old house above the sea. He has escaped the excitement of his earlier days. He is content, but that contentment and quiet is shattered by the earthquake, the Great Event: "the sight from his lookout of what could never have happened, never ever have been vouchsafed, is a kind of command." The reality of the impossible impels him to join humanity again, to join them on the sea-bed, to search, again, for all he desires. Quality and value are gone ("detritus=treasure") when the past is stripped bare.
He wants one thing, not anything, and so he is different from the other looters and holds nothing in his hands until finally he finds his object, which the narrator tells us in parentheses and with a question mark might be a mirror. Something to look at himself with. "It's as if the impossible is true... It could be revealed only by something that had never happened..." What he sought could only be revealed by fantasy.
He finally has what he wants, and just then the wave returns, linked by the narrator's words to the Hokusai print: art enters reality and claims a victim, dragging the man and his precious possession down to timeless, meaningless death. He is complete now, finally, and outside history.
The next paragraph tells us that this man was not anonymous: he was known "in the former regime circles in the capital". Along with his corpses are other corpses, old and new, including "those dropped from planes during the dictatorship" -- anonymous, forgotten, unrecognized, hidden by "the accomplice of the sea". The sea is not the disinterested creature of a nature separate from humanity; it is, or has been, also a tool used by humans to support their power.
"No carnation or rose floats." No symbol of love or mourning, no sign of the living who care for the dead. The old regime is gone, but the waters still do their job. Neither oceans nor dictators memorialize what they hide, destroy, devour. Is the people's avarice so awful it deserves such punishment? Is the old man's sin worse than the dictator's? The members of the old regime still live in the capital, still pass news back and forth, but the old man has left the realm of the human, our world and our time.
The New Yorker version of the story ends here, but the version in Gordimer's eponymous collection adds one more sentence, one that for the second time echoes Shakespeare's Tempest: "Full fathom five" (cf. "sea-change of the writer's imagination" above). Shakespeare's old man gave up his magic powers of control and creation and rejoined humanity. Gordimer's old man's fate is, perhaps, more bitter.
The old man and all the other drowned desirers are now rich, strangely so, turned into objects, preserved outside of time, unremembered and unknown by anyone beyond the sea-nymphs, those creatures of fantasy and imagination.


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Sanofi-Aventis layoffs cut total US sales forces to 5,700
Emmy Tsui, a Sanofi spokesperson, said key therapeutic areas for the company include "diabetes, oncology, atrial fibrillation, and other platforms for sustainable growth." Tsui added that Sanofi will "continue to evaluate the resources we have dedicated to our US operations," but would not comment directly on plans for future changes to US sales forces.In a letter to Sanofi employees published on BNET, Jerry Durso, Sanofi VP and head of US specialized therapeutics, said the cuts were related to a "reduced presence in the CNS market," which includes Ambien CR and Aplenzin, an outsourcing of reps on bone drug Actonel, and a reduced sales force behind Nasacort AQ. Sales of Nasacort AQ were $239 million in 2009, around $50 million higher than Sanofi's next generation allergy drug Xyzal, according to SDI figures. Nasacort AQ, however, is expected to face generic competition as early as summer of 2011.
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In keeping with the decision to focus on diabetes as one key area for growth, Sanofi announced that it had acquired exclusive worldwide licensing rights for Pancreate, a diabetes type 1 and 2 treatment developed by CureDM, a Delaware-based biopharma. Pancreate (proisletide acetate) is thought to stimulate the production of insulin-producing islets in the pancreas, and is expected to enter stage 1 clinical trials later this year. The deal includes a potential $335 million in milestone payments to CureDM, should the drug successfully enter the market, according to a company statement.


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MOSCOW (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to cancel a planned meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin is disappointing, but he is still welcome in Russia, a top Kremlin foreign policy aide said on Wednesday.
"We are disappointed by the U.S. administration's decision to cancel the visit of President Obama to Moscow planned in early September," Putin's foreign policy aide, Yuri Ushakov, told reporters.
"It is clear that the decision is due to the situation around the former U.S. special services employee Snowden, which we did not create," he added.
Obama would still come to Russia in September for a G20 summit in St Petersburg but will not attend a separate meeting with Putin was supposed to take place in Moscow ahead of that.
Russia granted temporary asylum to Edward Snowden last week, rejecting U.S. pleas to expel him and letting the former spy agency contractor slip out of a Moscow airport after more than five weeks in limbo there.
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Indians dominate Lakeland InviteColville High's defending 1A volleyball champions dominated last Saturday's high-powered Lakeland Invitational (Rathdrum, Idaho) volleyball tournament. It was Colville's second straight Lakeland Invitational title.The Indians, who ran roughshod over their own Jamboree back on Sept. 4 to start the season, won the Gold division (highest level) of the tournament. Colville, who beat Lakeside 25-13, 25-5 and Lewiston 25-17, 25-16 in pool play, downed St. Maries 25-13, 25-12 in the first round of Gold Division play before beating Lake City (Coeur d' Alene) 25-21, 25-17 in the title match-up.In the Silver Division title match-up, Lewiston beat Reardan, a participant in last Tuesday's Colville Jamboree and the defending State 2B volleyball champions, 25-17, 25-22.Cheney gets bronzeIn the Bronze Division, fellow Great Northern League rival Cheney beat Kamiah 25-21, 25-9 in the championship match.CHS head coach Missy Bennett was pleased with her team's play at both Lakeland and at home on Sept. 4."I gave them a (grade of) nine (out of 10 for their performance), only because I don't give out 10's this early in the season," Bennett said of the veteran Indians' performance in Idaho. But we played very well there and we played a little better in the jamboree. Our field there was much stronger this year."In the field at the Colville Jamboree were Deer Park, Mt. Sentinel (South Slocan, B.C.) and Reardan.Colville downed fellow GNL member Deer Park 25-10, 25-5 and blasted the Canadians 25-6, 25-13 before easing past another very good Reardan team, 25-5, 25-11."We played very well against Reardan," Bennett said. "We were ready to play somebody besides ourselves (in practice). We were primed for Reardan."It was just a well-rounded, well-balanced effort (at the Jamboree)…a really great team effort."This Indians' volleyball team has (arguably) more firepower than any Colville volleyball team ever has. It was on impressive display last week.In those three Jamboree matches, Colville had 77 kills. The team accumulated 30 ace serves (yes, for you math majors out there, that's a whopping 10 a match). "Serving is a huge part of our success and we served very well," Bennett said, adding that "our attack and strong serving led to a lot of offense. That tended to shut down the other team's options."At Lakeland, it was more firepower and solid serving on display. Leanna Carr (Benchwarmer's Athlete of the Week), Sadie Learn, Joellee and Aubrey Buckner, Jacy Vining and Tyra Brons all had runs of 10 serves or more."That's pretty amazing in rally scoring," Bennett pointed out.Serve Receive solid"For the early season, we were very sharp. And we did a very good job of passing serve. The serve receive was really strong…it means we passed serve really well."THIS WEEKColville will host Cheney on Thursday at 7 p.m.


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Oscar winner Whoopi Goldberg is turning herself into a comic book superhero for a new animated project.
The Sister Act star joined fans at New York Comic Con over the weekend (12-13Oct13) to meet with industry executives and discuss her own graphic novel plans, which she hopes will give young readers a more realistic view of women as they age.
She explains, "I was pitching a comic book that I'm hoping to do... I've been a comic book kid all of my life. One of those things you don't see is... comic book heroes, female, with any hips, you don't see them over 12 years old, maybe something sagging a little, nothing is ever moving. So I'm working on something that will alleviate that...
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A driver ran over Sarah-Charlotte and her bike on a roundabout, leaving her with severe leg injuries that have changed her life. The driver, who said in court that she 'didn't look', pleaded guilty to careless driving.
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Sarah-Charlotte cannot walk without assistance after having her legs driven over. The driver that hit her received a £110 fine and 9 points.
Paul suffered a complete fracture to his leg after being hit by a car driver. Rather than the driver being charged, Paul was charged with careless cycling.
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How we're campaigning to stop bad driving
The Road Justice campaign aims to improve the way the justice system handles bad driving in order to actively discourage irresponsible driving and raise driving standards. Safer roads will not only benefit cyclists, but all road users.
The police, prosecutors and the courts all contribute to protecting us from criminal behaviour on the roads. Much of the time they are effective and many bad drivers are prosecuted and receive the appropriate penalties. Yet, unfortunately, some bad drivers are treated leniently due to what Cycling UK perceives as occasional failings of these institutions. This can send out the message that driving inconsiderately or in a way that puts others at risk is tolerated.
The campaign's objectives
1. To ensure thorough police investigations of all road traffic collisions involving injury and death, including appropriate support and information for road crash victims.
2. To ensure the police and prosecution make appropriate charging and prosecution decisions.
3. To ensure sentences reflect the severity of an offence and discourage bad driving, with an emphasis on more and longer driving bans.
How we are going to achieve the objectives
By collecting evidence of the problem
We have collected, and continue to collect, evidence of how the justice system has let cyclists down. On this website you can read numerous stories of people whose lives have been ruined by a road collision and who have been let down by the legal bodies meant to protect and support them. If you have an experience you want to share with us, please use our incident reporting tool
By recommending improvements
We have published three reports for the campaign which contain recommendations for improving the justice system's response to driving that endangers others. We are in the process of disseminating these reports to decision makers within the judicial system and working with them to implement the recommendations. The reports can be downloaded here.
The first report 'Road Justice: the role of the police' was delivered to every police force in England and Wales in July 2013. We have mapped out how each force has responded to the report so far. Check out how your local force has responded.
By working with the police
We engage with the police at the national level and are in the process of setting up working groups at the local level between local Road Justice campaigners and police forces to ensure the campaign's recommendations are implemented.
By raising political awareness and support
We are working with other organisations to raise political awareness of the issues and to increase political support for change through meetings with influential individuals and decision makers.
We are active members on the Justice Review working group, alongside British Cycling and RoadPeace, which is seeking a review of the entire justice system. Other members of the working group include representatives of the Ministry of Justice; the CPS; the Department for Transport; the Home Office; and the Association of Chief Police Officers.
We held a debate on sentencing for driving offences in June 2014, in order to influence the Sentencing Council's forthcoming review of sentencing guidelines for serious driving offences.
We contributed to the Government's driving offences and penalties review in April 2015.
How you can get involved with Road Justice
If you're passionate about cycling and safer roads you can get involved in the Road Justice campaign in many ways: from making a donation to keep the campaign running to becoming a local campaigner.
Cycling UK is putting on campaigns training to anyone interested in either the Road Justice or Space for Cycling campaigns. More information about the training can be found here
Campaign supporters
Road Justice is a joint campaign run by Cycling UK, the national cycling charity and the Cyclists' Defence Fund, a charity which fights legal cases involving cyclists and cycling.


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BY: The Daily Cat experts
Kittens typically receive their first round of shots when they are 8 to 9 weeks old. Most vaccinations prevent illness by introducing a small amount of the disease-causing organism into the individual's body. This stimulates the immune system, leading to the creation of antibodies that can protect your cat against a possible, more full-blown version of the disease. The antibodies diminish over time, so your kitten will need booster shots throughout its life. Your veterinarian will advise you as to when these are needed.
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The daughter of two Mexican immigrants reveals how much she saw of her parents' lives as a child -- and the inspiration she drew from their struggles. Airs Tuesday, September 7 at 11:25 PM


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Kelly Layman
Executive Director of Communications
MEDIA MEMO: Transmitting letter to Gov. Scott from Chair Parker regarding PECO funds & budget review process
DATE: May 19, 2011
TO: Interested Media
FROM: Kelly Layman, Spokeswoman, Board of Governors, State University System of Florida
RE: Letter from Chair Ava L. Parker to Gov. Rick Scott regarding PECO funds
Attached (and text below) please find a letter from Florida Board of Governors Chair Ava L. Parker to Gov. Rick Scott regarding his review of PECO funds in the budget passed during the 2011 Regular Session.
You will recall that PECO (Public Education Capital Outlay) funds are not only appropriated to the State University System – they also are historically distributed and shared with the K-12 system, charter schools, and the Florida College System of state and community colleges as well.
Two documents related to PECO funds for the State University System – listing the PECO projects reviewed by the respective university's Board of Trustees, the Florida Board of Governors and selected by the Legislature – were emailed to media on May 6 along with overall end-of-Session budget information. Should you need that info again, those documents and the entire press package remain available at www.flbog.edu – click under Press Room and click on "STATE BUDGET PACKAGE & HIGHLIGHTS" for detailed information and links to specific PECO project information by-university.
This letter serves as the Board's comment on PECO funds until action is taken by the Governor shortly on the budget.
Thank you.
May 19, 2011
The Honorable Rick Scott
Governor, State of Florida
Plaza Level 02
The Capitol
Tallahassee, Florida 32399
SUBJECT: PECO Appropriations - SB 2000 - General Appropriations Act
Dear Governor Scott:
Thank you for your leadership and participation with us at our March 2011 Board meeting. We look forward to an ongoing dialogue about the role our state's universities have in diversifying and transforming Florida's economy.
As you review the budget that was presented to you by the Legislature, please know that the Board of Governors fully supports the PECO projects that were included in the 2011 General Appropriations Act. Significant investment in our public universities — as well as attention to deferred maintenance issues — is vital and creates thousands of new jobs. Funding for facilities is an essential cornerstone to building an economy based on knowledge, research discoveries, commercialization and innovation.
To assist in your evaluation, I would like to take the opportunity to provide some additional facts for your consideration. The total funding of more than $137 million from PECO and Lottery bonds would provide the following benefits:
-- Completion of projects currently under construction.
-- Renovation of existing educational facilities.
-- Development of new construction projects to meet the access and demand for student enrollment.
-- Funding for System-wide maintenance at each of the 11 state universities, something we desperately need for capital renewal, which will help protect the state's existing investment in more than 4,000 buildings and associated supporting infrastructure, such as roofs and the need to address ADA requirements and fire safety codes at certain buildings.
We appreciate the thoughtful deliberation that you and the Cabinet brought to the May 17th meeting of the State Board of Administration (SBA). Your action in authorizing $74 million in 2008-appropriated PECO bonds serves the State of Florida well, allowing dozens of projects across the entire spectrum of K-20 currently under construction to continue forward to completion. As you know, PECO dollars in the statutory formula are shared among the K-12 system, charter schools, the Florida College System of community and state colleges, and the State University System.
Governor, you can be assured that the entire list of State University System PECO projects as listed in the 2011 state budget on your desk adheres to all standards, were approved by their respective university boards of trustees, and are among the top priorities for the State University System. Should you or your staff need any additional information regarding this, please do not hesitate to contact me or Chancellor Brogan.
You already have been a tremendous supporter of the State University System. We continue to look forward to working with you and your team in the months and years ahead.
Ava L. Parker
c: Members, Board of Governors
Chancellor Frank T. Brogan


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Ryan Madson ABC: Always Be Closing
Ryan Madson is the third in a trinity of Phillies players on the receiving end of unjustified criticism in the greater Philadelphia area over the past two years. The other two, as you may have gathered if you read this blog with any regularity, are Cole Hamels and Jayson Werth. The pattern seems to be that the player has a breakout year and fails to live up to it in subsequent seasons. It wasn't that long ago when Werth was contemplating the end of his career after a wrist injury, Hamels had an ERA approaching 6 at the end of July, and Madson could barely hang in the back of the starting rotation. Note that the low bar for all three was set in '06 and the high bar was set in '08.
Following their '06 struggles, Werth became one of the rare five-tool players in the game, Hamels found his niche at the top of the Phillies' starting rotation, and Madson developed into one of the most devastating relief pitchers around. If you're patient with talent, eventually you will be rewarded.
During the second half of '08, Madson added some zip to his fastball. The four-seam fastball crossed 95 MPH on 83 different occasions, all of them occurring in July or later. From April through June, his fastball averaged 91.4 MPH; from July through September, his fastball averaged 93.2 MPH. Madson also harnessed his control as his BB/9 went from 2.7 in the first half to 2.2 in the second half. Overall, he went from a pitcher with a 4.23 SIERA in '07 to 3.62 in '08. His ERA was 3.05 in both seasons, garnering him wide mainstream praise.
Madson's improvement earned him a reward in January '09 — a three-year, $12 million contract extension. There were no expectations for him to usurp Brad Lidge's throne as the closer, especially since Lidge was coming off of a dominant perfect season in terms of saves and the Phillies had just won a World Series. He was simply expected to pitch in the eighth inning as the "bridge to Lidge".
Madson continued to excel, finishing '09 with a 3.18 SIERA and 3.26 ERA. His strikeout rate continued to climb (7.3 to 9.1 K/9) and his walk rate was well below-average (2.6 BB/9). The fastball averaged 95 MPH and hit 97 or higher on 32 different occasions. The average velocity gap between his fastball and change-up was 12 MPH, causing hitters to swing and miss at the change 30% of the time.
While '09 was a prosperous time for Madson, it was quite the opposite for Lidge. His strikeout rate dropped to a career low and his walk rate increased to a career high, causing him to blow an inordinate amount of save opportunities. Lidge finished the year with a 7.21 ERA and admitted after the season that he pitched while injured. He missed time between June 7-25 and Madson was asked to fill in as the closer. In those nine innings, Madson allowed five runs total (all in three consecutive appearances) while blowing two saves and earning two losses.
Despite the small sample size, Madson was deemed as mentally incapable of closing games. This reputation prevented Charlie Manuel from officially demoting Lidge, and it cost the Phillies several games down the stretch as well as Game 4 of the '09 World Series — the only World Series game in which Lidge appeared. Madson, meanwhile, compiled a 3.48 ERA in 10 and one-third post-season innings despite a ridiculous .467 BABIP.
Lidge had surgery in the off-season and missed the first month of the '10 season. Madson, of course, was asked to fill in again, and again he struggled. In nine innings of work, Madson blew two saves and allowed seven runs. This was yet more evidence that Madson didn't have a "closer's mentality" although the reason for his struggles was more likely due to a .407 BABIP.
Madson bathed himself in gasoline and tossed himself into his own fire when he broke his toe kicking a folding chair in frustration after another poor outing in San Francisco. He missed six weeks and was fortunate that Jose Contreras filled in admirably. It was the cherry on top of what seemed to be an ice cream mountain of evidence for Phillies fans that Madson was mentally weak and incapable of handling any kind of pressure.
Since coming off of the DL on July 8, Madson has a 27-to-3 strikeout-to-walk ratio and a 1.93 ERA in 18 and two-thirds innings. His SIERA is ninth-best in baseball at 2.19. Although Lidge has been better lately, he is simply not reliable. If and when Lidge falters, Manuel needs to be quick in assigning Lidge's higher-leverage innings to Madson. Unlike last year, the Phillies don't have a division lead cushion on which to sit. They are currently two games behind the Atlanta Braves for the NL East lead and tied with the San Francisco Giants for the Wild Card lead. At the same point last year, the Phillies were up 4.5 games in the division.
Madson strikes out as many batters as Lidge; Lidge walks batters at nearly two and a half times the rate of Madson.
Madson still has a fastball that hits the high-90's; Lidge didn't hit 90 once in his appearance last night against the New York Mets.
Madson's bread-and-butter pitch (change-up) induces swings-and-misses a whopping 42% of the time; Lidge's (slider) only 17%. Overall, Madson induces 6.5% more whiffs.
Madson is a ground ball machine (50%); Lidge is not (37%).
There is no reason not to make a change, even now. Lidge has an average leverage index of 2.3 on the season while Madson owns a 1.7 mark. Those higher leverage innings should belong to Madson. The Phillies know from experience how close the playoff races get, having won the division on the last day in '07 and on the last weekend in '08. Making a change now can pay off exponentially later.
We saw Lidge's performance in Game 4 of the World Series coming way back in June last year. Yet Manuel allowed it to happen anyway.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." – George Santayana


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LAS VEGAS (AP) - March 21, 2013 --Throngs of workers blocked traffic on the Las Vegas Strip in a demonstration against the Cosmopolitan casino that has ended with the arrest of nearly 100 protesters.
Tourists watched from an overpass across Las Vegas Boulevard on Wednesday as workers wearing red union shirts were led one-by-one into a large white police bus. Metro Police Captain Todd Fasulo says 98 protesters were arrested.
Workers have been in contract talks with Cosmopolitan Las Vegas owner Deutsche Bank for two years.
The Culinary Union earlier this year held two one-day pickets outside the casino, which is next to the Bellagio resort.
Cosmopolitan spokeswoman Amy Rossetti says management is continuing to negotiate with labor to "find a fair agreement."


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Jack Balkin:
jackbalkin at yahoo.com
Bruce Ackerman
bruce.ackerman at yale.edu
Ian Ayres
ian.ayres at yale.edu
Corey Brettschneider
corey_brettschneider at brown.edu
Mary Dudziak
mary.l.dudziak at emory.edu
Joey Fishkin
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Heather Gerken heather.gerken at yale.edu
Abbe Gluck abbe.gluck at yale.edu
Mark Graber
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Stephen Griffin
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Jonathan Hafetz
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Jeremy Kessler
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Andrew Koppelman
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Marty Lederman
msl46 at law.georgetown.edu
Sanford Levinson
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David Luban
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Gerard Magliocca
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Jason Mazzone
mazzonej at illinois.edu
Linda McClain
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John Mikhail
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Frank Pasquale
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Nate Persily
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Michael Stokes Paulsen
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Deborah Pearlstein
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Rick Pildes
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Neil Siegel
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Friday, May 23, 2008
Why the sex discrimination argument failed in California
Andrew Koppelman
It remains puzzling why the California Supreme Court, in its recent same-sex marriage decision, rejected the most formally powerful argument for its result: the argument that denying licenses to same-sex couples is sex discrimination. The weakness is made clear in this recent column by Steve Chapman, who writes: "while the California Constitution forbids discrimination on the basis of 'sex, race, creed, color, or national or ethnic origin,' it does not forbid discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. The justices somehow found something in the document that the authors thought they omitted." As I've explained earlier, the Court had to work very hard to reject the sex discrimination argument, using tired old arguments that had been used long ago to defend miscegenation laws: since both blacks and whites [both men and women] are equally burdened, there's no discrimination.
Because the court never said that people should have the same rights with a woman that they do with a man. It's entirely appropriate for people to have the right to conceive with someone of the opposite sex but not with someone of the same sex.
That reasoning would be relevant if the law at issue were one that prohibited a man from conceiving a baby using the eggs of another man.
But since the law at issue prohibits two men from getting married, and says nothing one way or the other about conceiving children, your argument is irrelevant.
I, as a gay libertarian, have always found the "it's not sex discrimination" thesis to be the one and only talking point against gay marriage that is totally reasonable and utterly inoffensive.
Straight men and straight women are treated equally (i.e., better than gays). Gay men and gay women are treated equally (i.e., worse than straights). That is simply not sex discrimination.
Meanwhile, note that California's anti-miscegenation law did NOT treat the races equally: Blacks could marry, e.g., Asians, Hispanics and American Indians. Whites could only marry other whites (see Page 86 of the decision).
If you (correctly) rephrase the anti-miscegenation law as "no white may marry a non-white," then the fallacy of the "symmetry" argument becomes self-apparent.
That is another reason why gay marriage is better rooted in the anti-miscegenation invalidations than in sex discrimination claims.
Right Dilan, but the court is leaving open the possibility that such a law could be written. Conceiving children is one of the rights of marriage, so a law like that would be incompatible. Also, the court doesn't want to say that same-sex couples should have equal rights to a man and a woman, even if the right in question has nothing to do with marriage. Like maybe it has to do with public bathrooms or health clubs or social clubs, which are based on the right to do something in the presence of other people being distinct depending on the sex of the other people present. If there are no other people present, it wouldn't be an issue what sex you were.
Professor Koppelman,
I think this has a lot to do with the politics of recognition. As you and others have persuasively pointed out, anti-gay discrimination is sex discrimination. With marriage restrictions, where A could marry B but for A's sex, that's just more obvious than usual. But that route to recognition suffers not only from being 'unfamiliar,' as you note, but also from seeming to many gay people to fail to acknowledge their group as an equally important, separate, distinctive group, with its own growing social movement, deserving of its own special category of protection like race and sex, not via sex.
I think that a lot of what is going on here is that the court is trying to formulate the core logic of the decision in such a way that it focuses on recognition for the group, and the social movement, whose push for equality is what got us here. (Of course, why so many gay people believe, wrongly in my view, that their struggle has nothing to do with sex discrimination, would take a much longer discussion! I would love to hear your thoughts on it.)
In the world I live in, whether a man can conceive a child with another man simply isn't an issue of law or constitutional rights.
where was the snark? Did you think "eggs from another man" was a joke? If only! Dude - google "female sperm" or "same-sex conception" and then re-read the CA decision in light of the question of whether to allow that or not.
Why is it "puzzling" that CA, as was the case in various court rulings and civil rights laws ... and general societal understanding ... focused on the more well recognized/accepted route?
The comparison to Loving only takes one so far. There is clearly a "homosexual" group here, right? Formulating some group of those (by birth? etc.) attracted to the opposite race is less sensible, if possible.
Again, why exactly is this so confusing? Now, I realize the force of the gender discrimination argument. But, like those who wanted Roe to go that route, it really isn't currently a realistic path given the situation.
The force of the argument makes the dismissal in that part of the opinion messy. Lawrence suggested equality might be a route, but argued it was prudent to take due process. Other rulings ignore secondary arguments as not necessary, given they were decided on other grounds.
I'm not sure why CA felt obligated to (messily) dismiss the gender route. But, I'm not "puzzled" why it focused elsewhere.
[btw, even if Virginia was consistent and didn't allow Asians to marry blacks, or whatever, the law would be unconstitutional; but that wrinkle does complicate things]
Laws against same-sex marriage prohibit both homosexuals and heterosexuals from marrying a person of the same sex. Hence these laws treat homosexuals and heterosexuals equally and hence do not discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation.
Laws against same-sex marriage prohibit both homosexuals and heterosexuals from marrying a person of the same sex. Hence these laws treat homosexuals and heterosexuals equally and hence do not discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation.
Likewise, laws against polygamy prohibit both monogamists and polygamists from practicing polygamy. Hence these laws treat monogamists and polygamists equally and hence do not discriminate on the basis of marital status.
I hope you were either joking or drinking when you came up with this bulletproof logic.
It seems pretty natural to argue that a ban on miscegenation did not provide substantive racial equality, but that the "mandatory miscegenation" of different-sex marriage laws does. The best argument would be that the inequality in this case is purely formal, which doesn't seem that unreasonable to me. You can find a few feminist theorists somewhere who will argue that different-sex-only marriage is really about keeping women down but this is very much a fringe view and it's not surprising the courts aren't interested in going for it.
You are, of course, entirely right about discrimination against gays and lesbians being about gender norms, but the courts haven't been terribly interested in finding that requiring people to adhere to gender norms is impermissible sex discrimination. Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins did go for the plaintiff, but my understanding is that it hasn't been much expanded. Different dress expectations for men and women are still legal and their constitutionality is not in doubt.
men keeping women down or women keeping men down, but sexual reproduction keeping the genetic engineers down. And yes, sexual reproduction, in our species, does divide humanity into humans with wombs that get pregnant and humans that don't have wombs that impregnate them.
The question is, do we preserve that system to preserve male superiority or female superiority or because it is a pretty good efficient system with a lot going for it, and much better than the alternatives? The alternatives are expensive and require lots of regulation and government and will become huge entitlements, even requirements. They won't even guarantee that men and women will be more equal, not with women only able to produce girls and men not having wombs of their own. Perhaps not needing each other to reproduce will make things worse rather than better. And anyway, at a time when millions of people are without adequate nutrition and basic health care and our energy use is obscenely excessive, pursuing alternatives to sexual reproduction are also unethical. Plus, pursuing them will change the way we view children and equality and the other sex. It is good that we all have to cooperate with someone of the other sex to reproduce. It is good that it doesn't use any electricity to do it. It is good that the process causes us to view all people as equals because we were all created the same way, by a man's sperm fertilizing a woman's egg, without any tinkering.
"They won't even guarantee that men and women will be more equal, not with women only able to produce girls and men not having wombs of their own."
I rather doubt that women who are determined not even to use sperm donors are going to be too put out over not being able to give birth to males. And I fully expect we'll have artificial wombs within a decade or so. So the men WILL have wombs of their own, they'll buy them out of a catalog! (Just like many of the women, once they're proven out.)
right, already, lesbian couples overwhelmingly choose to have girls when sex selection is available, so most will not mind that they will only be able to have girls. Artificial wombs might indeed make men and women more equal, but that couldn't be achieved until all babies were born from them, and no women still had their own wombs, and even then, it still might not be achieved, there still might be inequalities that remain or that even are heightened.
My point remains: as a method to achieve equality of men and women and eliminate any "system of supremacy" for either sex or orientation, the idea of same-sex conception is really dubious and dumb. Postgenderist" Feminists have implied that women won't be free until women are free from their biological role as mothers, but again, we don't know that it will work, and there are other ways to achieve a better result.
Marriage is the better way to achieve a better result, where one male and one female pair up for life and spiritually and legally become one flesh, for life, sharing bed and hearth. (note the argument against polygamy inherent in this reason for marriage).
@ PMS_Chicago:
[Larry Fafarman]: Laws against same-sex marriage prohibit both homosexuals and heterosexuals from marrying a person of the same sex. Hence these laws treat homosexuals and heterosexuals equally and hence do not discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation.
Likewise, laws against polygamy prohibit both monogamists and polygamists from practicing polygamy. Hence these laws treat monogamists and polygamists equally and hence do not discriminate on the basis of marital status.
Likewise, laws against miscegenation prohibit both blacks and whites from marrying someone of the other race. Both races are perfectly free to marry; they may marry someone of their own race, but are equally prohibited from marrying someone of the opposite race. Neither race is disadvantaged.
That argument went over well in Loving....
John, being a libertarian rather than an egalitarian, I'm not particularly concerned with making men and women more "equal", I'd rather just make both more free.
well, Brett, allowing same-sex conception won't even make people more free. First of all, same-sex couples will feel coerced to use it as soon as it is offered. It'll just be a question of if they can afford it. And then, because it would open the door to allowing all forms of genetic modification, it would lead to all people feeling coerced to use enhanced or at least screened gametes, because it will be seen as unethical to use natural gametes. It won't be too long before people are not allowed to use natural gametes, it could actually be a crime. At first it will seem like a new option is being offered, but look further down that road and you'll see that it isn't freedom at all.
"First of all, same-sex couples will feel coerced to use it as soon as it is offered."
Being a libertarian, I also have little interest in arguments that people are coerced by having more options, so we ought to 'free' them by restricting the options available to them. Sorry, that's at best nonsense.
You can claim that we'll inevitably lose our reproductive liberty as a result of genetic engineering being used on humans, but the only person I see attacking that liberty right now is YOU.
There's a principle called "procreative beneficence" that operates on everyone's moral beliefs which causes people to choose everything offered to them in order to have the "best possible child". It is almost like not having a choice at all. It's like having the choice to drink during pregnancy, sure, some will choose to, but most people feel obligated to quit drinking, and people get mighty upset at anyone they see drinking while pregnant.
And it's not only me, most other countries have banned germline GE, it's only a few psycho countries that are pursuing it. I don't know what is so wrong with the US that so many people here think we should be intervening in the process of people having babies, I think it is a form of guilt.
This reminds me of an old joke.
Three men walk into a bar. The bartender asks the first man, "What'll you have?" The guy responds, "I'll have a beer." The bartender nods and gets the guy a beer.
He turns to the second guy. "What about you, buddy?" The second guy thinks for a second and says, "I'll have a shot of whiskey." "You bet," says the bartender, and he gives the guy a shot of whiskey.
"And you? What's your poison?" the bartender asked the third guy. Without batting an eye, the guy responds, "It won't be too long before people are not allowed to use natural gametes; it could actually be a crime!"
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I've been on here lurking the forums and posts for a few months, getting advice, answers , and tips to improve my score. Since Ive started I know ive gotten rid of basically all of my collections accounts, which was my biggest downfall. Now I only have a car loan on there with almost perfect loan history since I got the car in January 2011. And one closed credit card account with a balance of $308. My Equifax is showing a 627, TU is showing 577. and I dont know about EX but it was the lowest. I have had about 19 inquires this year (which was not smart, I know). I was approved for a a RoadLoans check thing but there rates are crazy and they want me to put money down. I have tried Alliant CU and Consumers and was denied. Im just wondering why this isnt working out in my favor. I have raised my EQ by at least 100 points and TU by about 80. No bankrupticies or public records or even collections on my TU or equifax. I am only 19 and make about $1400 a month but even still I should qualify for something other than a RoadLoans/Santander. any help would be appreciated. ALSO today I went to a dealership that Lending Tree recommended and they denied me but at the top of his dealer pull sheet my Equifax was a fricken 498 from Ford Credit I think. I tried Cap One and was denied so I'm going to call them tomorrow, after the holiday, and ask for a reconsideration.
In your post you said you have only been making payments since Jan 2011 and not all of them were timely (that's how I took the word: almost).
How many lates do you have in your current car loan?
Is there a reason why you want to get another vehicle right away - you just got this one less than two years ago. Also, one of the factors might be your income in relation to the amount of car you are trying to buy.
What kind of vehicle and price have you been shopping?
I had one thirty day late, which is only reporting on my TU. The reason why I am looking for a new car is because the one I have now has an issue at least once a month. Transmission had to be replaced and some other things. I do plan on trading it in but was also considering selling it on my own and getting more money out of it because there is a balance which isnt that high. the car shhouldnt be upside down. only $2180 left from $4300. I've been looking at cars around $10-11K for like a used Hyundai Sonata or G35. Today I didnt even look for a car just ran the credit before we even got serious and still was denied.
And im still confused as to why the dealer pull showed a score 130 points less ?
I'd say your score could be lower because it is auto-enhanced and you have an auto late, but you said they pulled EQ and the late is only on TU, so not sure. Are you sure it was EQ and not TU? It could also be that Ford was using a proprietary score model rather than a FICO score. Maybe someone more familiar with Ford can tell you, or if you have the denial letter does it say on it what score they were using, or if not explicity what score, does it state the score range?
You might want to post more complete details in the rebuilding forum and get some advice there. Your scores, especially the TU score, are still pretty low if you have no collections and only one 30 day late. How recent was the 30 day late?
Also, don't underestimate the value of nursing your car along or getting a more reliable beater for a while longer yet. If you think your car is worth more than $2180, if you can add even a little bit to that, you should be able to get a dependable car provided you don't have a particularly long commute. People tend to overestimate the amount they are really putting in to a car for maintenance.
Thanks for the responses and the 30 day late was in August of this year so just a few months ago. And I am 100% positive it was my EQ. But even if it was auto enhanced should it be that low from one late payment. ? and I am working at it everyday, I am trying to be patient but winter is fast approaching Chicago and my heat sucks and my traction. Those things could be fixed but will cost. The sheet that the dealer had had some kind of bar chart on it. I shouldve asked for a copy -__- I know at the top it stated Reporting Agency = EQ then Score = 498. I am wondering if selling my car on my own first and paying off the loan will help my score but then I will have nothing but a closed CC account.
what about putting 500 down on a secured after 6-12 months app for something else
A recent 30 day late can have a large effect. The good thing is that its effect doesn't last that long compared to other major derogatories.
If you have no open credit cards, you probably would see a score increase from opening a card. While you take hits for an inquiry, a new account, and lowering of AAoA, a lot of people report seeing an increase when they have no revolving credit and they add a card. Sometimes there is an increase for the second card as well. Adding a secured card as suggested may be a good approach.
Yea I may have to. its just thats a timely process... Who do you recommend for a secured card?
No experience with them, but lots of people have posted about BofA's secured card. I think the overall consensus is that it's a decent option.
Just got a secured card from US Bank a couple of months ago...pretty decent experience so far. I am just speculating, but $1400 a month in income and 19 yrs old probably doesn't instill a tremendous amount of confidence in a lender, regardless of scores.